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Siggraph video review, special issue.
- Title
- Siggraph video review, special issue. 60, HDTV and the quest for virtual reality [videorecording] / produced by Laurin Herr.
- Publication
- San Francisco, CA : Art Com, 1990.
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- Description
- 2 videocassettes (120 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- This tape provides an overview of the technological (and geopolitical and philosophical) developments and issues concerning High Definition Television and Virtual Reality. It features conversations with foremost industry experts and visionaries on, and demonstrations of: the invention and evolution of HDTV, standards, production and distribution, implementation, current production in Japan, Europe and the U.S., new applications, HDTV and telecommunications, the digital video telecomputer; the definitions and origins of Virtual Reality technology, multi-media and hyper-media, graphical user interface, display hardware, digital computer networks, digital image compression, 3D peripherals and the data glove, head mounted displays, shared virtual realities, telepresence. 51 on-camera speakers include Jaron Lanier, VPL Research, Inc.; Andrew B. Lippman, M.I.T. Media Lab, Barry Rebo, REBO High Definition Studio, Inc.; John Sanborn, Sanborn, Perillo and Co.; Dean Winkler, Post-Perfect; Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Nippon Electronics College; directors, presidents and researchers from Silicon Graphics, Inc., DuPont Electronic Imaging; CBS Inc.; Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.; Sony Advanced Systems; BTS Broadcast Television Systems; Sony Corp. of America; David Sarnoff Research Center; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; AT&T Bell Laboratories; Bellcore; DARPA; NHK; Hewlett-Packard Company; Sun Microsystems.
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- Credits (note)
- Directors, writers, Laurin Herr, Judson Rosebush.
- Title
- Siggraph video review, special issue. 60, HDTV and the quest for virtual reality [videorecording] / produced by Laurin Herr.
- Imprint
- San Francisco, CA : Art Com, 1990.
- Credits
- Directors, writers, Laurin Herr, Judson Rosebush.
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- Herr, Laurin.Rosebush, Judson.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 2212 S